This suggestion is to make donations worth Neopoints. I know this has been suggested before, but bear with me here. Neopoints are currently awarded for contributing to the site; writing reviews and guides, and submitting screenshots, cheats, and a lot more. Right now, a lot of people contribute just to have Neopoints (though this sometimes comes in the form of complete bullcrap); theoretically, making donations worth Neopoints would encourage people to donate more. Right now I'm thinking a $10 donation would be worth 1000 Neopoints. In the contributor's part of the profile, it would say "X Money Donated" or something.

(My computer won't let me access the RFS Index, so I don't know if there was a thread in there or not. If there is, I apologize.)

Neopoints are awarded for contributing valid content to the site, not for donations. The very definition of donation is that you are not expecting anything in return. Awarding them through another venue would cheapen the existing system of Neopoints, not to mention give Neo the image of "wanting your money". Not that people don't want your money per se, but "members' money" is presumably at the very bottom of the list of things Neoseeker wants to get out of this site.

There have been many suggestion regarding a donation icon, placing a cash value on neopoints, neopoints counting towards post count, donations yielding neopoints and just about every combination in between.

Personally, a donation is just that.

Also, theoretically, people being able to purchase neopoints would probably cheapen them to the point where people would no longer want to legitimately contribute. Contributions to the site are worth far more than a few "minimum amount" donations...if you get my drift. The feeling of having earned the neopoints will be erased if they can be purchased.

The only way I see something like this working is if there was a major offset that would prove beneficial to Neoseeker as a site and still maintain the balance between people wanting Neopoints and going the distance to earn them. Something like, starting at $50, you can buy neopoints. $50 gets you 50 neopoints and an additional point for every $1 after that per transaction...meaning that each transaction would have to be a minimum of $50.

You can earn them, or you can vastly overpay for them. This way everyone who already is will still want to contribute, and those that want them for "show" can pay out the ass for them...thus allowing the Neopoints to retain their assumed value.

Neopoints are awarded for contributing valid content to the site, not for donations. The very definition of donation is that you are not expecting anything in return. Awarding them through another venue would cheapen the existing system of Neopoints, not to mention give Neo the image of "wanting your money". Not that people don't want your money per se, but "members' money" is presumably at the very bottom of the list of things Neoseeker wants to get out of this site.

How many people do you think are going to donate to this site expecting nothing in return? How many immature people who think Neopoints are everything will donate to increase the size of their e-penis? I would imagine it would increase quite a bit.

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There have been many suggestion regarding a donation icon, placing a cash value on neopoints, neopoints counting towards post count, donations yielding neopoints and just about every combination in between.

So? The subject of Neopoints being worth something is almost old as the points themselves.

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Also, theoretically, people being able to purchase neopoints would probably cheapen them to the point where people would no longer want to legitimately contribute. Contributions to the site are worth far more than a few "minimum amount" donations...if you get my drift. The feeling of having earned the neopoints will be erased if they can be purchased.

People who put time and effort into contributing to Neo don't really care about Neopoints. The high quality contributions that actually matter come from people who care.

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The only way I see something like this working is if there was a major offset that would prove beneficial to Neoseeker as a site and still maintain the balance between people wanting Neopoints and going the distance to earn them. Something like, starting at $50, you can buy neopoints. $50 gets you 50 neopoints and an additional point for every $1 after that per transaction...meaning that each transaction would have to be a minimum of $50.

You can earn them, or you can vastly overpay for them. This way everyone who already is will still want to contribute, and those that want them for "show" can pay out the ass for them...thus allowing the Neopoints to retain their assumed value.

I think making them worth that little is bad, but I do luck the mass amounts of money or nothing idea. Say, 5000 points for $50 at a time?

5000 points for $50? That's way too much. Neopoints show that you help the site out and make it better by adding information. I think I have 200 neopoints or something like that. I spent a lot of time putting all that stuff together. Why should some rich kid get 25 times the amount of neopoints I have when it took him 2 seconds to ask his parents for money? Donating and providing information are totally different, so you can't really group them together. Even creating another system or symbol doesn't seem like a good idea. That separates people by the amount of money they have, which has nothing good that can come out of it, and leaves a door wide open for trouble.

Why should some rich kid get 25 times the amount of neopoints I have when it took him 2 seconds to ask his parents for money?

Because he just gave thousands of dollars towards running the site. Frankly, I think in that situation, Red would rather have enough money to buy some new servers than a shit-load of contributions, but that's just me.

How many people do you think are going to donate to this site expecting nothing in return?

I know of at least one for sure. I'm positive there are others, too.

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People who put time and effort into contributing to Neo don't really care about Neopoints. The high quality contributions that actually matter come from people who care.

My contributions are high quality, I care, they matter and I don't particularly care about Neopoints atm(for anything short of pride), but if they could be purchased I'd probably be singing a different tune.

this is stupid. there was another suggestion like this last year. it wasnt accepted then, it will not be accepted now. donations do neoseeker a favor, and a favor is doing something without expecting anything in return.

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